fatten out

1. 1.

   make fat or plump

   “We will plump out that poor starving child”

   Synonymsfattenfatflesh outfill outplumpplump outfatten up

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Questions about fatten out

What does fatten out mean?

fatten out means "make fat or plump".

What is another word for fatten out?

Close synonyms include fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fatten out a common word?

fatten out is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.